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MERCHANT SHIPPING.

No. 10 of 1899.

of

certificates.

(17) The master of a ship, on signing the agreement with Production the crew before the Superintendent of the Mercantile Marine Office, shall produce to him the certificates of competency which the master, mates and engineers of the ship are hereby required to hold.

(18) Every person who-

(a) makes, assists in making or procures to be made any false representation for the purpose of procuring, either for himself or for any other person, a certificate of competency; or

(b) fraudulently uses a certificate or copy of a certificate of competency which has been forged, altered, cancelled suspended, or to which he is not entitled; or

or

(c) fraudently lends his certificate of competency or allows it to be used by any other person,

shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

Engagement and discharge of seamen.

57 & 58 Vict. c. 60, s. 103.

Forgery of certificate. 57 & 58 Vict c. 60, s. 104.

Marine Office.

*

5.—(i) It shall be lawful for the Governor to appoint within Mercantile the Colony a place to be called the Mercantile Marine Office, at which place shall be conducted all the business connected with the engagement and discharge of seamen on board British ships, and foreign ships whose flag is not represented by a consular officer resident in the Colony, such ships being in the waters of the Colony. The Harbour Master shall be the Superintendent of the Mercantile Marine Office.

of seamen.

(2) No seaman shall, except with the sanction of the Shipping Harbour Master, be engaged to do duty on board a British ship, or any foreign ship whose flag is not represented by a consular officer resident in the Colony, elsewhere than at the Mercantile Marine Office; and the Superintendent shall require such seaman

* As amended by No. 23 of 1932 [10.12.321 and Law Rev. Ord., 1937. The provisions of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, and the Mer- chant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, with reference to the engagement of seamen and to agreements made with seamen by masters of ships are not affected by the Employers and Servants Ordinance, 1902. See No. 45 of 1902, s. 26.

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